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HAVANA, Cuba , November www.cubanet.org - Karina laments having come rather late to Havana from her native Santiago de Cuba.

Juan Gonzalez, poses next to the bronze statue of the late Beatle John Lennon in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2013.

Activists blame the sudden cancellation of Cuban-Americans' bank accounts on the chilling effects of the U.S. embargo against Cuba Maria Isabel Alfonso of Queens wants to visit her aunt Isabel, pictured here in her Havana living room, but may not be able to do so because of the suspension of all consular activities.

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By MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP Chief Medical Writer In one of the biggest advances against leukemia and other blood cancers in many years, doctors are reporting unprecedented success by using gene... By MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP Chief Medical Writer In one of the biggest advances against leukemia and other blood cancers in many years, doctors are reporting ... (more)

A vendor hauls a crate of bananas to a market in Havana, Cuba on Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2013.

A vendor hauls a crate of bananas to a market in Havana, Cuba on Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2013.

Another example of the corruption of Cuba's Catholic Church and its ongoing complicity with the repressive and bloody dictatorship of the apartheid Castro regime.

Mandela is accompanied by his former wife Winnie, moments after his release from prison February 11, 1990 after serving 27 years in jail.

France and the African Union on Saturday announced plans to deploy several thousand more troops into embattled Central African Republic, as thousands of Christians fearing reprisal attacks sought refuge from the Muslim former rebels who now control the country after days of violence left nearly 400 people dead - and possibly more.

30, the highest total since 1994 and 10 percent higher than the estimated 40,000 arrivals in the previous year.

Finn-Olaf Jones @ The Wall Street Journal tells the story of a romantic and exotic Cuba that writer Hemingway chose for his creative and personal refuge ... the Cuba of "The Old Man and the Sea" ... that seems all but fiction over 50 years later as generations of post-Castro Cubans struggle daily for more than a bragging-rights fish, but for food ... (more)

It is a rare day in Cuba when the Communist Party's triumphalist newspaper suggests that the government - just maybe - messed up.

Une vue sur une Oldsmobile 88 1955 qui passe devant le complexe Barcelo Solymar a Varadero.

THE END OF CAPITALISM? - Rob Urie on the future of capitalism; James Kilgore on the strange politics of prisons in America; David Macaray digs into the history and influence of the US Chamber of Commerce; Louis Proyect surveys the films of Steven Soderberg; Lee Ballinger on political ballads; Jeffrey St. Clair recounts the history of eugenics in ... (more)

Colombia's oldest rebel group FARC said Wednesday that the government's refusal to integrate an "truth" commission into the ongoing peace talks is a barrier to progress.

Don't you just love how the dictatorship of the proletariat parties in communist utopia? Party like it's 1959! The New Year's dinner gala will combine delicious dishes and enlivening entertainment for the "modest" price of 150 CUC per person, equivalent to $ 3.600 pesos in national currency--the modest Cuban peso which serves to pay the salary of ... (more)

Elian Gonzalez during the celebration of the 10th anniversary of his return from Miami on June 30, 2010 in Havana, Cuba.

If you want women's votes, you have to remember that women's priorities are all about P.A.N.T.I.E.S. Stephen Colbert just solved the GOP's "woman problem," and it took him less than four minutes! Looks like John Boehner can call off all of those tutoring sessions ! If Republicans wants to attract women voters and female candidates, they must never ... (more)

The Obama administration is "currently engaged" in behind-the-scenes discussions to win the release of U.S. government subcontractor Alan Gross, jailed in Cuba for the past four years, according to Secretary of State John Kerry.